Planning for the Planet : : Environmental Expertise and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1960–1980 / / Simone Schleper.
During the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise and novel challenges for ecological advocacy groups such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). This book reveals how, de...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Environment in History: International Perspectives ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction. Conserving Global Nature
- Chapter 1. Old Hands, Pastures New: IUCN and the New Environmental Age
- Chapter 2. Classifying Ecosystems: Th e International Biological Program, 1964–1974
- Chapter 3. Expertise and Diplomacy: Systems Politics at the UN Stockholm Conference, 1972
- Chapter 4. Nature’s Value: Th e Fault Lines in the World Conservation Strategy, 1975–1980
- Conclusion. IUCN and Environmental Expertise, 1960s–Present
- Appendix. Expert Biographies
- Bibliography
- Index